FinnishLapphund
There's no cow on the ice
Poor you, only 6, and 10, that's no age at all for a horse or pony. No wonder it feels strange for you to still have the 30 year old.
Jonna was getting close to 17 years, and had been eating special food better for her old liver for 1-2 years, so that she died wasn't unexpected, but even though Beata was as old as Blomma, it just felt as if she was a few years younger.
I thought we would maybe have to euthanise Blomma already back in September 2020, when she was diagnosed with Diabetes Insipidus. Then the medication didn't control the disease as well as her veterinarian had expected, yet, early this year the medicine caused her salt/sodium levels to drop too dangerously low, so now she's on a lower than normal dose of the medicine, which might not be enough to keep the Insipidus under control.
Besides that health problem, at the beginning of the year I noticed that Blomma had started to sleep deeper like some old dogs do, she doesn't hear as well as she used to...
Whereas Beata seemed fit as a fiddle. The only sign of her age was that maybe she saw a bit less well in the dark, but otherwise, she was just like a dog half her age. Until 3 weeks before Jonna died, when we found out Beata had last stage liver cancer. A few days after finding out that, we found out that Jonna's liver was probably soon about to stop working due to old age.
So things got quite intense, and that little corner of my brain which since 2020 have been trying to mentally prepare myself for having to euthanise Blomma before Beata (when Blomma's Insipidus can't be controlled anymore), probably just didn't have time to adjust.
